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GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE September 16, 2005

On the Edge of Seventeen!

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A life less ordinary

Fundamentalist. Marine. Gay porn star.

ROBIN HENSON

Such has been the life of Rich Merritt, the focus of a New York Times Magazine article on gays in the military, and soon after, an article in Advocate about a Marine who had done gay porn.

Of course, Marines doing porn are not really news. As Merritt himself points out in Secrets of a Gay Marine Porn Star: A Memoir, a scandal erupts every few years over some jarhead taking off his clothes and getting busy on videotape.

Brought up in South Carolina, Merritt attended Bob Jones Academy and Bob Jones University, the "Fortress of Fundamentalism." Eventually expelled from the university, he went on to a successful Marine career, as well as a successful, if brief, porn career under the name Danny Orlis.

For those in the know, Orlis was a tip of the hat to a series of Christian Hardy Boy-esque mysteries published in Merritt's youth, an irony he couldn't resist.

An engaging, intriguing read, Secrets of a Gay Marine Porn Star, out on Kensington, is easily worth the $15 price tag. For those in Cleveland, pick up a copy on September 25 at Body Language, West 115th and Lorain Ave, and Merritt can sign it, since he will be in the store from 2 to 4 pm for a reading and signing.

For more information, go to www.richmerritt.com. For more on Body Language, go to www.body-language.com or call 216-251-3330.

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